r/HolUp Sep 14 '22

peak ingenuity

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u/SeptemberTwentyFirst Sep 15 '22

Not at all knocking it whatsoever - obviously a fucking dope work of art, but I assume you model it all out in some kind of 3D drone software and just tell them all when and where to fly in relation to each other and they do the work from there automatically?

Actually, I'd love to see some youtubes on how that's done, Im sure its fascinatingly more complex than that

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u/CowboyButtsMakeMeNut Sep 15 '22

Nope, every drone is controlled independently by a different operator. They're that good. There are actually fairly new doctorate programs at some schools on the west coast for drone operation. It's so insane that it's almost unbelievable.

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u/AntiBox Sep 15 '22

...no it's fully automated. There's even software that just takes an image and turns it into a flight plan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

That software just sends the image to a team in Guangzhou who make the individual flight plans from the image, ready to distribute to the drone operation team.